An average movie

Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, I really struggled to get into this flick. I don’t know, maybe I wasn’t in the right mood but I didn’t really get what was so ‘fun’ or’ entertaining’ about seeing some evil kid killing a bunch of people. I have to admit that the cast was fine though and it is very rare to see some decent actors in a horror flick like this one. However, even if Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard had a decent chemistry, most of their decisions and actions were dictated by the plot and not by what these characters would actually choose to do. Anyway, there were just so many things that rubbed me in the wrong way. Basically, it is a movie that toys with the concept that, since you were not involved in the first years of an orphan, they can never really be trusted which is just an appalling idea. Furthermore, if you would believe this flick, you shouldn’t trust ‘weird’ kids and you should even be entitled to make fun of them since they could actually turn out be some psychotic killers. Finally, it was just ridiculous to see a shrink deliver a full psychological profile of her client after just one session. At least, I have to admit that the 3^rd act was actually fairly entertaining and effective and the twist at the end was actually not bad but, still, most of the damned thing didn’t really work for me. Anyway, to conclude, even though I didn’t like it much, I have to admit that, in the evil kid genre, it might be one of the better movies I have seen so I guess it is worth a look if you like the genre.